558 Quotes by John Calvin

The word hope I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

There is nothing which God more abominates than when men endeavor to cloak themselves by submitting signs and external appearance for integrity of heart.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

Inquire not what are the opinions of any one; but inquire what is truth.

We know nothing vainer than the minds of men.

If anyone cannot set his mind at rest by disregarding death, that man should know that he has not yet gone far enough in the faith of Christ.

Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.